Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 662 Follow-up
The antiquities excavation at Sutton Hoo went very smoothly, but it was not so easy to deal with the next series of trivial matters, such as the ownership of these cultural relics.

Indeed, legally speaking, these things should belong to Liang En and the others, but because the excavated things are so precious, the British side needs to conduct a series of communications with Liang En and the others.

At first, the British side hoped that Liang En and the others would donate these items, but after being rejected, they stopped mentioning it. After all, Joan of Arc is now a nobleman, representing the real ruler of this country.

Yes, the Western world does traditionally pay attention to the spirit of contract, but the prerequisite is that the people who sign the contract with them are considered equal to them, and besides that, they can tear up the contract at will for their own benefit.

To take the simplest example, the Spaniard Pizarro captured the Inca emperor and demanded a ransom, so the emperor's subjects amassed a huge sum of gold and silver to redeem his freedom.

这笔赎金是如此的巨大，按现在的说法在300吨到400吨之间，同时还有几乎两倍于此的白银。但是收到了赎金的皮萨罗在1533年8月29日在他的囚室内杀死了印加皇帝。

This example shows that according to the Western tradition, there are very few people who can be treated equally by them, and it can even be described as rare. Fortunately, in most cases, the British nobles basically belong to those who are considered to be treated equally.

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that Joan herself is a pure white person, and at the same time, she is a devout Catholic. If it is a yellow person like Liang En, it will not be so easy to keep these things.

Although the entire Western world is now repeatedly promoting racial equality, racial discrimination still exists vaguely, or it is precisely because they lack awareness of equality in this regard that they repeatedly emphasize it.

However, even if there is equal treatment, it only means that the other party will abide by the law. For the British side, they will try their best to restrict the holders of these national treasure cultural relics.

For example, certain restrictions will be imposed on the storage and location of those items to ensure that these national treasures will not be destroyed and try to prevent such national treasures from being lost abroad.

This is why many aristocratic families are overwhelmed by expenditure, because if they want to keep their family treasures, they must spend a lot of wealth in this area every year.

In other words, unless Liang En and the others chose to sell these items immediately, they would have to spend a large sum of money to find a way to preserve these items. "In other words, next we need to build a museum."

After reading this series of documents, Joan shrugged helplessly.She learned this movement from the movie. Joan of Arc did not know how to do this kind of modern American-style movement before, but now she feels that this movement best reflects her mood.

"That is to say, we spent a lot of time, energy and money in less than two months to find two treasures. As a result, not only did we fail to make cash, but we also had to lose money to repair the museum."

"This is called long-term investment." Liang En said with a smile, "I believe that these museums will bring us huge benefits in the future. These benefits are not only economic, but also other aspects."

"Of course I believe this. Even if I don't know much about it, I know that this kind of museum will bring long-term benefits to a family just like the territory in our era." Joan of Arc nodded and said.

"The only problem now is that your working capital has been basically occupied by a series of investment projects and museums in the United States, so where do you plan to get the money to complete the construction of the museum here?"

"I know that if I ask Mr. Du Lisi, he will definitely be willing to borrow money, but I think we just received this manor as a gift, so I don't think it's appropriate to owe so much in a short period of time."

"You're right, but you don't have to worry about the funding issue this time." Liang En comforted Joan. "Golden Dawn has said that it is willing to provide long-term interest-free loans, as long as I agree to open the cultural relics research license to them."

For the Golden Dawn, the Sutton Hoo cemetery is definitely a treasure house, so after learning that the owner of these treasures is Liang En.They quickly submitted an application to Liang En.

Liang En generously approved their application and information sharing request as before, and at the same time told the other party his plight and collected enough money from the members of the Golden Dawn.

Favors are best if they come and go. It is not a good thing to simply owe others a favor or let others owe you a favor, so it is not a bad thing for Liang En to owe others a favor at this time. .

Although it is not an easy task to build a museum from funding to design, for the members of Golden Dawn, it is basically possible to build a museum as long as it is not a top-level museum like the British Museum.

Although the Sutton Hoo cemetery discovery is important enough from various perspectives, it is actually not very large in scale, so it is not a complicated thing to build a museum in its entirety.

After discussing a series of trivial matters, Liang En and the others came out of the room and rode their bicycles to the visitor center on the other side of the manor to have lunch.

Although cooking by yourself is a very troublesome thing, cleaning up after cooking is even more troublesome, so rather than cooking by yourself, Liang En and the others prefer to go to the visitor center every meal time to grab a meal.

Of course, this approach was not aristocratic at all, but for Liang En and the others, no matter how their ID cards changed, their living habits did not change much.

However, this has not affected their communication with the so-called high society, because their current status is not simply derived from their own blood, so they naturally have the right to choose how to live.

Rights and obligations are always fair. For those rich people, whoever they choose as their spouse has to completely obey the arrangements of the family. After all, they have to give up something to enjoy more than ordinary people.

Of course, this is also related to the Duris family lineage, because their noble title comes from Joan of Arc, so they themselves advocate simplicity, and even tend to live the lives of ordinary people.

Of course, Mr. Du Lisi seems to be living a luxurious life purely because he is running a luxury business, and sometimes not dressing luxuriously is not good for his family's business.

But if you go to his home, you will find that his daily life is very ordinary. For example, he is not taboo to buy ordinary food directly from the supermarket, and even eat some fast food occasionally.

"Yes, grilled meat with vegetable salad." After choosing the dishes, Joan brought her dinner to the table, and then looked at what the staff said. "Everyone seems to be happy."

"That's right, everyone is really happy." Liang En nodded and said, "Isn't it the Chinese New Year soon, so I gave everyone an extra-year bonus equivalent to a week's salary as a red envelope."

"More importantly, our discovery this time has brought a bright future to the entire manor, so everyone will naturally feel happy because they have a bright future."

(End of this chapter)